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Wizardchan, like Wizchan, has a rule that no one can post on it if one is not a [[virgin]], which implies a non-virgin cannot hold any power within it. Therefore, after Copypaste lost his virginity, he gave in 2013 the adminship of the site to his co-admin, Glaive; Copypaste then asked Glaive to ban him, which Glaive reluctantly did. This was revealed throught the leak of an IRC conversation<ref>https://pastebin.com/Gna61cZx</ref> which one could access on an URL on 8chan,<ref>Something like https://8ch.net/reddit.txt, but I cannot remember the word used instead of "reddit".</ref> the website of which Copypaste was the admin and creator. | Wizardchan, like Wizchan, has a rule that no one can post on it if one is not a [[virgin]], which implies a non-virgin cannot hold any power within it. Therefore, after Copypaste lost his virginity, he gave in 2013 the adminship of the site to his co-admin, Glaive; Copypaste then asked Glaive to ban him, which Glaive reluctantly did. This was revealed throught the leak of an IRC conversation<ref>https://pastebin.com/Gna61cZx</ref> which one could access on an URL on 8chan,<ref>Something like https://8ch.net/reddit.txt, but I cannot remember the word used instead of "reddit".</ref> the website of which Copypaste was the admin and creator. | ||
===Gamergate and Zoe=== | ===Gamergate and Zoe=== | ||
Wizardchan is notable among cultural critics for being a central drama hotspot of Gamergate, a controversy surrounding a woman named Zoe allegedly cheating on her bf and sleeping with multiple game industry people, including her boss, to get her game | Wizardchan is notable among cultural critics for being a central drama hotspot of Gamergate, a controversy surrounding a woman named {{Wikipedia|Zoe Quinn}} allegedly [[Infidelity|cheating]] on her bf and sleeping with multiple game industry people, including her boss, to get her game Greenlit on Steam, promoted, and well reviewed. | ||
One of the starting events of gamergate involved a thread on wizchan where users posted about Zoe Quinn's game Depression Quest when it was released in 2013. In the thread many users described how the depression portrayed was nothing compare to theirs as well, insulting the game, and comments that women can't experience depression like men do. The attitudes at the time showed how Wizardchan used to be more incel-friendly (perhaps even primarily incel) because there were comments about how women had an easier time finding sex. It wasn't like neo-Wizardchan of the late 2010s where the board purity-spiraled into LARPing about being purely [[asexual]] [[volcels]]. | One of the starting events of gamergate involved a thread on wizchan where users posted about Zoe Quinn's game Depression Quest when it was released in 2013. In the thread many users described how the depression portrayed was nothing compare to theirs as well, insulting the game, and comments that women can't experience depression like men do. The attitudes at the time showed how Wizardchan used to be more incel-friendly (perhaps even primarily incel) because there were comments about how women had an easier time finding sex. It wasn't like neo-Wizardchan of the late 2010s where the board purity-spiraled into LARPing about being purely [[asexual]] [[volcels]]. | ||